Welcome to SATURDAY at the Foreword Book Festival in Eye! Join us today for: 👑 9.30-11am – FREE children’s crafts at Eye Library 🎉 11am-3pm – FREE Family Party at Eye Community Centre, with crafts, cake, and live storytelling! 📚 11am-3pm – FREE Children’s and YA Book Fair at Eye Community Centre 🎭 Noon –…
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Last week, Suffolk Radio presenter Jules Button spoke to one of our festival speakers, Richard Negus, about this weekend’s Foreword Book Festival in Eye. Listen here …
We’ve teamed up with the wonderful Roughacre Brewery to produce a limited-edition Foreword Festival Beer! It’s a zesty, summery pale ale, perfect for drinking while you sit and enjoy your new book purchases in the sunshine. Check out our list of stockists, and pick up your bottle(s) from August 4th.
Check out this fantastic coverage of our Love Your Local Authors Book Fair in the Bury St Edmunds Flyer. We’ll be running more book fairs later in 2024. If you’d like to attend as a reader or as an author, sign up for our mailing list, and we’ll make sure you hear about all our future…
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The Foreword Festival is here! Yesterday’s book fair, live readings, children’s stories and workshops were fantastic. Today, meet the authors at the book fair, join us for our SF, Fantasy and Horror author panel at 11 in the Guildhall garden, and head for our publishing workshops, run by our sponsor, Softwood Self-Publishing. See you there!
We’re thrilled to find this fantastic coverage of the festival in the October issue of Suffolk Norfolk Life Magazine! Follow the link to read the full article online.
Jackie Carreira and Rachel Churcher, co-organisers of the Foreword Festival, are on the radio again today with the latest updates for the event at the weekend! Check out the Louise Hulland Afternoon Show on BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, and BBC Sounds. On Listen Again, the interview begins 1 hour and…
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Exciting news! Jackie Carreira, co-organiser of the Foreword Festival, will be on the radio today – not once, but TWICE! Check out Suffolk Sound at 10.30am, and BBC Upload at 6pm, when Jackie will have all the latest on our Literary Fringe Festival adventure!
We’re announcing the shortlist today! Congratulations to everyone who entered. Head over to the Fast Foreword page to find out which stories – and authors – made it to the shortlist! The judges will choose ten stories for our live reading event next week and make the final announcement next Friday, 15th September. Thank you…
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Workshop ticket sales for the Foreword Festival are now LIVE! Places are limited, so book your tickets now. Writing workshops on Saturday 7th October, Publishing Workshops on Sunday 8th, at the gorgeous Guildhall in Bury St Edmunds. Tell your friends! Tell your writing groups! And check out the workshop details.
